I seem to recall that the Amstrads had the ability to use ide drives, so if
you have an old one lying about, copy to that then use that to do the attach
to the newer machine.
Other than that, I seem to recall dos had a terminal program that could
emulate xmodem.
If you got a usb to serial adaptor, I'd have though a more modern terminal
and an old null modem lead might work albeit slowly.
Brian

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On 06/09/2020 22:48, No Name wrote:
On 06/09/2020 22:34, Grumps wrote:
Hi
So I have a really old Amstrad PC1512 with 20MB HDD. There are files
that I'd like to retrieve into a more modern environment - Win10.
The old PC has a 5 1/4" floppy, a serial port, and a parallel port.
The old PC also has Laplink v3.00a.

Is there anything that'll run on a Win10 PC that is compatible with
Laplink? Laplink themselves just told me (online chat) that the older
machine has to be Win7 or later. So DOS3.30 is out of the question
then!
Ta.

Do you know if the hard disc drive is a RLL or a MFM or IDE interface?

If its IDE, you can get IDE to USB adepters..... like this one:

It's an ST506 interface using MFM.


Good luck with the drive. It's like a floppy drive in terms
of control concepts. But obviously, the signal coming off
the head, isn't nearly the same.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ST506/ST412

"drive was derived from the Shugart Associates SA1000 interface,
[4] which was in turn based upon the floppy disk drive interface,
[5] thereby making disk controller design relatively easy."

http://www.bitsavers.org/pdf/shugart...nual_Dec80.pdf

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You'll be using serial port.

Good luck getting a program onto the old machine.

Kermit is now licensed under a BSD license
(as part of being abandonware).

http://www.columbia.edu/kermit/index.html

http://www.columbia.edu/kermit/cable.html

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Google isn't of much use these days, so don't expect help.
I tried to see if any parallel port recipes were
floating about, but don't see any.

You could put parallel ports on PCI Express machines. I have
a card with an OxSemi chip on it, which is a perfect little
parallel port card. But OxSemi was bought out and crushed,
so no more cards. There are still various cards available,
but the foreign maker is a mystery. I don't know if the
remaining cards are as flexible or not. The OxSemi card
shows up in I/O Space, if your OS is crusty enough and
needs that.

Paul